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  • hanrahan@piefed.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?English
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    12 days ago

    It’s all… perspective and relative ?

    The UK oversaw the slaughter of Kenyans in the Mau Mau rebellion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965–66?wprov=sfla1

    The CIA helping Suharto slaughter Indonesians in a genocide

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965–66?wprov=sfla1

    Israel’s existence is becase the US and UK taking native lands

    The Kurds were supposed to be free but too much Oil and that was stopped.

    Around 80 years ago, Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) wrote this:

    All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment,’ demands that the robbery shall continue.

    Somewhat more recently, Wendell Berry, in an essay entitled “Word and Flesh”, wrote this:

    This statement of Orwell’s is clearly applicable to our situation now; all we need to do is change a few nouns. The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do. We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. But that is the addict’s excuse, and we know that it will not do.

    The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, ‘Western civilisation’ or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.” ― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals

    We pretend we’ve been anything other then fascist since …? Most (many) German’s in Nazi Germany lived good lives, like most in the developed world have been living.

  • hanrahan@piefed.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•I should have switched years ago! - Linux gaming updateEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I don’t game anymore and tried switching a few times (dual booting) but decades of ingrained Windows made it hard (aka I’m lazy) and a lack of support for programs I did use, like Lightroom).

    This time i just took the SSD out and used a fresh drive to install Mint (have sonce moved to LMDE) and fuck the programs that don’t want to supoort Linux.

    Only difficulty is Darkroom in lieu of Lightroom, and only becase DR is so powerful . I’d been using Libre office and Firefox for years on Windows anyway (Netscape -->, IE --> Chrome --> FF)

    I have been thinking about a Steam deck :). I had a WiiU but hardly used it and sold it during Covid so O am a lottke concerned I’ll not be bothered. For me tied days most games are I am 15 mins free, moght play a little Bloons on my phone :)

  • hanrahan@piefed.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•Detained as an illegal immigrant – MAGA mom still has faith in Trump's mass deportation planEnglish
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    1 month ago

    These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

    Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

    A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

  • hanrahan@piefed.socialtoLeopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•I’m a Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.English
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    2 months ago

    Who votes against their own self interest so hard?

    Stupid people are normally conservative, not all consertives are stupid of course, some are grifters :)

    "I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. - John Stuart Mill

    How is she stupid, see 3

    These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

    1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

    5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.